Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Synopsis

Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller's visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town's most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is the follow up to Rodriguez and Miller’s 2005 groundbreaking film, Frank Miller's Sin City.

Things didn't exactly go too well for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For when it was released in theaters back in August. The movie was largely dumped on by critics (a big contrast compared to the reception of the first movie back in 2005) and then it completely underwhelmed at the box office (another big contrast).

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Considering seven separate categories, To 3D Or Not To 3D evaluates the full scope of the 3D viewing experience. Think of it as a consumer's guide for your movie-going, complete with a viewers poll where you can weigh in on how you plan to see Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

I’m coming in a day later than usual, but I’m hoping my fans didn’t get too crazy in the interim. The summer season in winding down. How can I tell? It’s feeling just a bit cooler in the air, the Back To School commercials are in full force, and the movies look a few degrees worse. That’s last one is the real barometer. When the flicks start looking rough, fall is officially on its way. This week we’ve got Sin City, teenagers deciding to stay and some high school football.

It took nearly a decade for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller to reteam after working on 2005’s Sin City. Despite the fact that Rodriguez kept promising that a sequel was in the works, he kept putting his attention towards other projects, constantly delaying what would wind up being Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. But now that the sequel is less than a month away from release, Rodriguez and Miller are apparently once again talking about a follow-up.

The Cinema Blend offices have been buzzing these past few days as we all get ready for one of the biggest events of the year in our industry: San Diego Comic-Con. The massive geek-fest will be kicking off on July 23rd, and just like every year we will once again have a team on the ground (including myself) covering the expo.

Again we're looking at multiple stories, using the 1993 graphic novel as partial inspiration. The title story is actually a prequel, revisiting Dwight, the character played in the first film by Clive Owen. This time around, the part is essayed by Josh Brolin, and he's lassoed into a revenge plot that involves the towering gangster Manute.

This year at the cinema is filled with all kinds of big sci-fi and superhero comic book action, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy all hitting theaters worldwide, but a comic book movie of a completely different variety will be arriving in theaters this August.

Rodriguez shoots on the cheap in and around his green-screened studios in Texas. He works with friends and colleagues when they are free, meaning that the studio won’t take a bath if the movie can’t find an audience. It will be in theaters on August 22.

Let’s talk about the busted and interspersing plans for all these Dame to Kill For characters. Fans of the first film may enjoy seeing more of Nancy (Jessica Alba), the stripper with a heart of gold, as she copes with the death of Hartigan (Bruce Willis). (Spoiler: she’s still stripping.)

The second image is actually a two-fer, as we get a peek of Mickey Rourke back under the Marv make-up and a debut shot of Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Johnny, a character created specifically for the movie who is a gambler who, as Rodriguez says, winds up beating the wrong guy in a game of poker.

There should be a little something for everyone in the coming year. And to help you plan out your movie-watching year, we singled out 14 titles we’re looking forward to in 2014, as well as a list of additional can’t-miss movies.

Do you like your noir with scantily clad femme fatales, scarred anti-heroes, razor-sharp one-liners and plenty of blood? Lucky for you, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are finally bringing forth Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. And with its release less than a year away ,its filmmakers have finally unveiled its first poster...

Of course, if you've been paying attention, this shouldn't be that surprising. The film kicked off production earlier this year, and in February director Robert Rodriguez posted the above image of Josh Brolin on set

It's still somewhat hard to believe, but Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is actually happening. We have been hearing promises for a sequel since the first movie arrived in theaters back in 2005, but due to scheduling conflicts and other projects that have caught Rodriguez's attention (he has released five movies since then) the movie was constantly thrown on to the back burner.

Variety says that Keach will play the “chief villain” in Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s planned Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The character will be named Wallenquist, a mob boss who, according to Miller, is “the one man who can’t be redeemed in Sin City. He is pure evil.”

We have been waiting to find out which actress would end up playing the part of femme fatale Ava Lord in the main story of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and today Dimension Films has revealed their choice. Eva Green has signed on for the new graphic novel adaptation. She will largely be playing opposite Brolin in the movie, who plays her ex-lover.

"I had to learn a bunch of dance sequences for it," Alba says. "I do a lot more dancing in this one. It was kind of crazy [the amount of time she spent preparing]. It was very, very difficult, and you’ll see why."

“Bruce is back, so he will be seen,” Rodriguez states, though he stays vague beyond that, and I’m OK with it. We don’t want to have all of the surprises from a second Sin City spoiled long before Rodriguez even completes filming. In addition to Willis, he mentioned roles for Juno Temple, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will see Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, and Jaime King reprising their roles from the first film. Now, as the hotly sought sequel rolls into production, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple and Jeremy Piven have joined the cast that also includes Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Chris Meloni.

When it was announced that the central story of Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Sin City sequel would be A Dame To Kill For the big question on fans' mind was, "What do you do about Dwight?" While the character was played by Clive Owen in Rodriguez's first Frank Miller adaptation, that story - The Big Fat Kill - is actually set after A Dame To Kill For and, most importantly, after Dwight underwent major plastic surgery to hide his real appearance.

Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, and Jaime King are returning to reprise their roles from the first film. However, Jamie Chung will be replacing Devon Aoki as "deadly little Miho," and Dennis Haysbert will take over the role of Manute, a part originated by the late Michael Clarke Duncan. Just yesterday it was revealed Joseph Gordon-Levitt has signed on to the sequel, and now Christopher Meloni has scored a role in the film.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt spent 2012 getting some serious comic book cred. Not only did he have a major role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, there have been rumors circulating that he could play Batman in the upcoming Justice League movie and last month we learned that he is one of the big names being considered for the lead role in Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy.

Those who have read Frank Miller's Sin City series have known that there would be a slight hiccup when it came to casting Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, namely the part of Manute. In Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film the character was played by Michael Clarke Duncan, but the Oscar nominated actor sadly died earlier this year.

They may spell their names differently, but one thing that Jaime King and Jamie Chung have in common is that both will be playing parts in the upcoming Robert Rodriguz-directed sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The role will be the first that Chung plays in the franchise, but it will be a homecoming for King, who played twins Goldie and Wendy in Rodriguez's 2005 original.

It was back in April that writer/director Robert Rodriguez said he had talked to Mickey Rourke about being in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, a sequel to his 2005 graphic novel-based thriller, but only now has he apparently actually entered negotiations for the part.

Rourke and Jessica Alba are the only actors currently confirmed to return, both presumably reviving their roles as Marv and Nancy. The press release promises, though, that "some huge names" will fill in the rest of the cast, especially in roles from the Sin City universe that haven't yet been seen on the big screen

Count me as part of the camp that won't believe Robert Rodriguez is actually making Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. In addition to the fact that it's been seven years since the first film was release, Rodriguez has been promising the sequel for years and has never actually come close to actually starting production, instead distracted by movies like Grindhouse, Machete, Shorts, Shark Boy and Lava Girl and Spy Kids 4D: All The Time In The World.

Robert Rodriguez has been promising a sequel to his sleek and sexy Sin City since 2005, but last week, after years of empty promises, fans were finally rewarded for their patience. Dimension Films announced Sin City 2 - rechristened as Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - would at long last go into production. With news that casting would begin this week came the vague assurance that much of the original cast would surely return.

It's been seven years since director Robert Rodriguez released his adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City, and that happens to also be the same number of years that he's been promising a sequel. With plenty of stories to choose from it wasn't hard to imagine that Rodriguez could pull it off, yet here we are in 2012 and we've still never seen a Sin City 2.

I've followed enough of these rumors to know that Sin City 2 won't exist until the last day of shooting wraps-- but if you want a little more hope to fuel you, take this news and run with it as you see fit

Monahan has added yet another flick to his growing list of upcoming projects in the form of Sin City 2. The original film was penned by Frank Miller, who also wrote the graphic novel the film was based on, so this will be the first time someone other than Miller will be messing with the material. But, having someone who can write as sharply as Monahan will add an edge to this sequel that the first one lacked.

"If it's going to happen, it's going to happen this year," Rodriguez just told the assembled Comic Con crowd of Sin City 2, which he says is still in the script process. He's basing it on three separate stories by Frank Miller, who co-directed the first movie

Here’s another instance of Arrested Developmentism, a term I invented to describe the incessant teasing of projects which will never happen, by actors, actresses, or filmmakers desperate for attention. Carla Gugino seems to think Sin City 2 is about to happen.

Sin City 2 producer, Stephen L’Heureux, said Sin City 2 will go into production sometime during the second half of 2010. He added that unlike the original film, the sequel will not be based on the novels, but rather, feature a completely original story

A few days ago I was ready to carve the tombstone for Sin City 2, convinced that the title's departure from Miramax meant that the long-developing project would never actually happen. But at Moviehole, Frank Miller fans never say die. They're hearing that Angelina Jolie is in "serious talks" to join the sequel

Robert Rodriguez, who obviously has a stake in keeping the series going, is telling you not to give up hope-- again. “I always say Sin City 2 right around the corner, because that’s what everybody wants to hear and I like pleasing the audience"

I’ve given up hope that we’ll ever see a sequel to Sin City. It’s an acceptance I’m okay with though. A second picture might detract from what the first movie managed to accomplish; make it less special, if you will. We want the only competition Sin City has to be Frank Miller’s horrendous take on The Spirit, which helps remind us why Sin City was so cool in the first place.

Despite what Frank Miller told IGN the other day about Sin City 2 being ready for an April 2009 start date, things may not be going so smoothly. Mickey Rourke, who starred in the first film and is now all over the place promoting The Wrestler, has said previously that he’d be interested in returning, but at an interview today seemed to have changed his tune. "I’m not interested in that right now."

As Mickey Rourke has made the rounds to promote The Wrestler, he's also happily talked up the potential of Sin City 2, which he says he's ready for whenever Frank Miller is. It's no surprise, then, that Miller too is ready to jump back on board. During an interview in London for The Spirit, Miller had a big announcement about his next project

One of the big questions left on everyone’s lips since the failure of Grindhouse at the box office has been: where does this leave Sin City 2? Cinema Blend’s working theory has been that the flop of Grindhouse may have somehow soured the long standing relationship between Rodriguez and the Weinstein Company, which might account for all the confusion over whether or not the movie is happening

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have been waiting to get started on Sin City 2 for more than two years now, and they’re still waiting. In a recent interview director Robert Rodriguez admits they have a script, but they’re still just waiting. While waiting, he drops some new hints on what the third Sin City movie may be about. That’s right, they’re planning a whole series of them… assuming the second one ever gets done.